--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote:
Technically, I do.
Thus far, the biggest hit total I've ever seen from google
came from simply typing I in the search bar, receiving
three times as many hits as me, a just a bit more than
you, and eight times as many hits as them.
That is interesting because it violates one of
the principles of cryptography and code-breaking.
I was interested in such things as a youth, and
so stuck somewhere in my synapses is the know-
ledge that one of the tricks used in breaking
codes is to notice the frequency of letter use.
The rule of thumb is that the most-used letter
or symbol in the code you are trying to break
probably represents the English letter E.
Samuel Morse, because it was relevant to creating
Morse code, determined that the most frequently-
used letters in English were (in order):
E, T, A, I, N, O, S, R
A more extensive study of the Oxford English
Dictionary revealed a different order:
E, A, I, R, O, T, N, S
So, that said, Google violates this principle.
As you say, searching for the letter I produces
7,780,000,000 hits for me.
Searching for E, which should theoretically
produce more hits, returns only 6,800,000,000.
Interestingly enough, however, the letter that
beats I in Google hits is the letter A,
at 17,340,000,000 hits.
Go figure.
With the mechanically generated code systems, the old methods are not much
use.
